the pipeline was a purely economic project at least now the government says a russian invasion of ukraine would have an impact. translator: if there is renewed aggression we have the full bandwidth of measures including nordstream 2. reporter: the u.s. has long urged berlin to use nordstream 2 which is not yet certified for gas transit as leverage to deter moskow. now the state department says if russia invades, the project is dead. if russia invades ukraine one way or another nordstream 2 will not move forward. reporter: but currently the germans are still very much moving forward with mordstream 2. in fact, a german subsidiary was just found trying to speed up certification here in europe. all this as berlin says it remains firmly in the u.s. corner and says that it will support massive sanctions against russia if there is a further invasion of ukraine. fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin.
distinction between the rioters and those who didn t commit any velns, but it didn t change the resolution. meanwhile sources tell cnn investigators now have records showing donald trump and republican congressman jim jordan spoke on the phone for ten minutes before jordan took the white house floor and reject today the certification of joe biden s presidential win on january 6th. on friday the congressman said he had multiple calls with the former president but couldn t remember if hay spoke that morning. the committee is debating whether to move forward with a subpoena for jordan after he refused to voltarl appear for an interview. in the latest round of diplomacy aimed at preventing a russian invasion of ukraine. president macron expected to arrive on monday. moskow insists it has no intention of sending its forces
are you a christian author with a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! ferential. welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. ahead on cnn newsroom, president biden reveals plans to reposition u.s. troops in response to russia s own buildup near ukraine. we re live in moskow and kyiv for the latest. china issues a warning after a casual encounter in honduras. we ll have details and a live report from taipei. plus the u.s. east coast
a false flag operations, but you ve got to understand there s a lot more players than just the russian military. there s the, you know, russian mercenaries who may or may not be under complete control of the russian military, and there s a lot of people involved. it s not all centrally controlled, so it may not be, but, you know, the fact that, you know, the u.s. hasn t presented one piece of evidence of this false flag attack being prepared, it undermines the faith in the u.s., not in russia. interesting. well, listen, thank you so much for your expertise on this in moskow. really appreciate it. thank you for having me. downing street is in full damage control mode as one close aide of prime minister boris johnson after another heads for the door. so have a look at this. these were some of the newspaper headlines this week calling the
call yesterday we were all told would change the game. all the readouts say it was entirely inconsequential. takeawayses were totally different from washington and moskow. there is no reconciliation. we all know joe biden would never de-escalate this from where he sat. who was tough on putin? rachel: we know it was trump. we also know that joe biden emboldened and strengthened russia just by our crazy, illogical energy policy that he started on day one which was not making us his number one energy producer in the world which of course then made russia stronger. meanwhile part of the reason why putin thinks that joe biden is weak was his performance in afghanistan, and how poorly he evacuated our citizens, our allies and also you know, leaving weapons behind, et cetera. now we have americans that are in ukraine this is really interesting. this is the message, on the